ecard question.

[marcjc]

I am hoping that someone else has come across this situation and may have a solution for this.

I have Copppermine installed on a LINUX host at my home. I have a seperate workstation at my home as well. At home I use my servers internal address to get to my website. Everything works fine except for ecards.

The problem I am having is like this: While I am at work, I send an ecard to my wife at home. She cannot get the picture to come up or any of the links in the ecard to work because it is hardcoded with the site address from which I sent it. Which in this case is the external address of my server. If she is to send me an ecard from my home PC, I cannot view it outside of my home, because it has the internal address of my server because that is where she sent it from.

If anyone knows a workaround for this please let me know.

HELP ... My wife is nagging because she wants to be able to send and receive ecards from our home.

Thank you,
marcjc

[Joachim Müller]

this behaviour is of course expected (not related to coppermine, but the technology itself).
Just tell your wife to not access your coppermine gallery locally, but over the web (with the full url) from home as well. If she can't access it from your home pc, you're in for some setup work on your pc?
What did you expect?

GauGau

[Oasis]

I have a suggestion: Print it out, buy some roses, and give it to her when you get home.  :lol:

[marcjc]

All of your suggestions are very valid.

Gaugau, I understand that this is not a problem of coppermine, but I was wondering what other people have done for this. I cannot access my external address from within my local area, this is not a pc config issue, but an ISP issue.

Oasis, very funny.... she gets those too....

[Oasis]

I cannot access my external address from within my local area, this is not a pc config issue, but an ISP issue.

How come? Can you access it directly by IP?

[marcjc]

My ISP is a cable provider. They block port 80. I have a DNS service which I register my domain name with a different port number. I have a cable/DSL router and I use the port forwarder aspect of it to get my webserver:3333 to go to my server. From my PC if I try to access the external address, I just get page not found. I think it is in the way the DLINK handles the internall traffic. It stops you from going out and coming back in over the same address.

So, if my ISP gave me another public address, this would be solved.

[Joachim Müller]

try accessing your page over an anon proxy, this should "scramble" your trace...
They block port 80 for you? What's the use of that? Nevermind, you'll surely have your reasons for budget ISP and self-hosting...
Although this seems like a very strange setup, I doubt you will find people here on this board that can help you, as the board doesn't deal with networking...

GauGau